A 麻豆传媒映画time travelogue brought to you by聽.
For much of Vancouver鈥檚 history, the shores surrounding the city was home to 聽living in houseboats and cabins. Burrard Inlet鈥檚 most famous squatter was Malcolm Lowry, who wrote much of his classic novel聽聽in his Dollarton cabin, and the houseboat lifestyle was fictionalized on the Vancouver-shot TV series聽. Most squatter鈥檚 lived less glamourous lives, but nevertheless were easily romanticized by outsiders.
A journalist for聽聽ventured down to Coal Harbour early in 1911 for聽. Most of them refused to speak with him: 鈥淭he waterfront amphibian, if he may be so called, is a man of much reticence, he can be silent in at least two languages 鈥撀犅燼nd coast English,鈥� he wrote, but was nevertheless able to describe some of the characters he found.
There were Giki, the Japanese, and Nook, the Siwash, whose tribes dovetailed in the far-off past; Jann Singh, the Punjabi; Fung Kow, the Pekinese; Rocambeau, the ear-ringed French seaman; Olaf, the son of Olaf, the hay-colored Souwegian, 鈥渂an sailorman鈥�; Hans Blamm, the Dutch fo鈥檓ast hand; Dirk Bolt, the English聽聽with the blue and red tattooing on his carbonadoed hide; and Jake Dogg, the harbor pirate, all of that breed of men the world nails to its crosses.
Jake Dogg was the most chatty of the lot, according to the writer, and also one of the more colourful squatters. He was a 鈥渓iving storybook whose chapters are strange ports in every longitude and whose illustrations shipwrecks, shanghai-ings and romantic sea-devilry round the world.鈥�
罢丑别听British Columbian聽came up with all kinds of terms to describe the squatters. They were picturesque, indolent, non-conformist, 鈥渉arbor hoboes,鈥� 鈥渨aterfront tramps,鈥� 鈥渇ortune鈥檚 footballs,鈥� and 鈥渨ater vagabonds,鈥� but the writer failed to pin them down to a single characterization. Some were rumoured to make money by cutting open log booms, stealing the logs, and then, 鈥渨ith the proper admirable nerve of the buccaneer,鈥� selling them back to the sawmills. Others were pensioners, beachcombers, or smugglers, while still others held regular jobs and were quite respectable, or at least as respectable as readers of the British Columbian聽would be if they slept in their clothes and 鈥減layed cribbage most of the day instead of working.鈥� All were dirty-faced and unshaven and 鈥渨onderfully individual.鈥�
Source: Coal Harbour, ca. 1910, City of 麻豆传媒映画Archives聽听(肠谤辞辫辫别诲).
